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[GreenCauses] Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come

  Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come   YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations group that periodically summarizes climate science, concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is collapsing, water supplies are coming under stress, heat waves and heavy rains are intensifying, coral reefs are dying, and fish and many other creatures are migrating toward the poles or in some cases going extinct.   The oceans are rising at a pace that threatens coastal communities and are becoming more acidic as they absorb some of the carbon dioxide given off by cars and power plants, which i...

[GreenCauses] Climate Change News

  Oxfam Report Says Global Food System Inadequate in Face of Climate Change Oxfam, a collaboration between 17 organizations that have banded together to work at solving the issues of worldwide poverty and injustice, recently performed an analysis on "how well the world's food system is prepared for the impacts of climate change." Oxfam's analysis states that the global food system is "woefully unprepared" to deal with the challenges presented by climate change but emphasizes that "there is still time to fix the problem." Available on Oxfam's website since Tuesday, the 20-page paper titled   Hot and hungry — how to stop climate change derailing the fight against hunger,   made its assessments by looking at "ten key factors that influence a country's ability to feed its people in a warming world." Oxfam outlines, in each of these ten food and climate policy and practice areas, ...

Fwd: water-l digest: March 27, 2014

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Water Issues Announcement List digest < water-l@lists.iisd.ca > Date: 28 March 2014 05:00 Subject: water-l digest: March 27, 2014 To: water-l digest recipients < water-l@lists.iisd.ca > Subject: water-l digest: March 27, 2014 From: "Water Issues Announcement List digest" < water-l@lists.iisd.ca > Reply-To: "Water Issues Announcement List" < water-l@lists.iisd.ca > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:00:11 -0500 WATER-L Digest for Thursday, March 27, 2014. 1. Water Update - 27 March 2014 - Water Policy & Practice ___________________________________________________________________________________ - You are currently subscribed to water-l as: thegreencauses@gmail.com - View water-l Forum: https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=water-l - Membership options / Unsubscribe: https://lists.iisd.ca/read/?forum=water-l ____________________________________________________________________...

Fwd: Invitation to EPIC's online discussion: the future of food security and climate change in Viet Nam, Malawi and Zambia

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Spairani, Alessandro (ESA) < Alessandro.Spairani@fao.org > Date: 28 March 2014 17:00 Subject: Invitation to EPIC's online discussion: the future of food security and climate change in Viet Nam, Malawi and Zambia To: Climate Change Info Mailing List < climate-l@lists.iisd.ca >     Digest No. 1100 Discussion 99   The future of food Security and climate Change in Viet Nam, Malawi and Zambia: scenarios, outlooks and challenges in the next 30 years Online discussion open until 9 April 2014   How to participate Send your contribution to FSN-moderator@fao.org or post it on the FSN Forum website www.fao.org/fsnforum   Dear colleagues, The EPIC team has set up an online space for discussion on The future of food Security and climate change in Viet Nam, Malawi and Zambia: scenarios, outlooks and challenges in the next 30 years. The aim of this online...